It is done to safeguard the investors. What the Enron case brings into question was whether the accountants (regardless of their degrees, licences and membership of the appropriate professional bodies) performing the audit were sufficiently qualified to do so.
So why continue to make singles? Why not just produce albums, DVDs and VHS of concerts? Or change the single format to DVD or VCD and put on the music video as well as the audio.
I have been buying music for about 30 years and I have only ever bought 3 vinyl 7" and 2 CD singles, but 100s of albums (on vinyl, Cassette and CD) If I hear a track I like on the radio, TV or internet, then I will buy the album not a single.
All music & video (and most other) content is copyright. The question is whether or not the copyright owner has given permission for the copy to be made.
This should not require region coding. If company A has exclusive distribution rights for area X and company B for area Y, then this should only affect the supply of to shops in areas X & Y. Once a consumer has purchased an authorised copy then what happens to that copy subsequently should be no concern of either the original producer or the distributer. If a consumer in area X finds that it is cheaper to purchase from area Y (paying postage charges, customs duty, import taxes etc) than buying locally (or if the product distributed by A is superior to from company B) then market forces (we do believe in market forces don't we?) should force B to be more competitive.
Why do studios want you to see it in the theater before buying the DVD? Some people like the atmosphere of a movie theater, others dislike the crowds and distraction of kids noisily eating popcorn and sweets so would prefer to watch in their own home or in a small group of friends. Do the studios make much more money out of the saleof a theater ticket than they do from a DVD sale?
If it ever comes to consumer equipment only playing "legitmate" media, then it is vital that original material produced by the consumer (eg wedding video or birdsong recording) is marked as 'legitimate'. Also if CPRM is introduced, then it should be available to all content creators not just the large media corporations. Joe Public should have just as much right to 'control' the recordings he makes with his digital camcorder as hollywood studios have to control their movies.
Even if it does not contravene copyright, for one distribution to change the name of a program/package is likely to confuse users/customers. Imagine how much confusion it would cause if you created a "xunil" distribution which had the programs "sl, perg, hsab, miv, dc, ccg, ssel, ptf, liamdnes, lrep" etc instead of the more 'normal' names. If everyone else, including the author, calls a package "abcd" then if your distribution renames it "wxyz" then people looking at your distribution are going to (at least initially) think that you do not include "abcd". If everyone changes the name, and if the change of name is promulgated, then there is not a problem, but if just one (or two) distributer changes the name this will lead to confusion.
How many artists either actually "slave in the studio to reach perfection" or would be allowed to even if they wanted to? I suspect that the answer is very few. The record companies do not want the artists to produce "perfection" they want to produce recordings as cheaply as they can get away with and sell as many copies as possible.
Even Virgin started out as a small store. When I was at school (in the late 1960s / early '70s), one of the small local record stores was "Virgin Records". This was before "Tubular Bells" (catalogue number: Virgin 1) 'made' Richard Branson.
Why should the ISPs need to "support" VPN, Linux or anything else? The phone provider does not offer support for the handset, answering machine, modem etc (unless they have supplied them) so why should an ISP support, or be expected to support, end-user equipment and software. All they should have to support should be IP connectivity. If customers suspect an ISP problem they should just have to submit the traceroutes, tcpdump, ppp traces, etc to the show the errant behaviour.
It is not only SMS from free websites what get blocked. I cannot send SMS to a friend in France from my UK Vodafone GSM phone, as the two networks do not have an interconnect agreement (or I think that is the reason!). Even so, I still get charged the 12p fee for sending the SMS, even though it is not delivered. It should be possible to send an SMS from any GSM phone to any other anywhere in the world, in the same way as you can call a landline in a different country irrespective of which teleco the person you are calling obtains service.
Maybe at the moment not many people need information on the structure of the hoover dam. However, in two or three hundred years this information may be invaluble to historians. It is a function of libraries not only to provide today's information today but to preserve current information for future generations.
The one thing MS is good at is helping out the user when configuring the system.
I disagree. Windows makes it easy to install a "default" configuration, but makes it difficult for the user/administrator to fine-tune the configuration or to make it do something even slightly unusual.
If UNIX used to be MicroSoft's man rival, I wonder why they disposed of the *NIX system they used to own rather than developing it to become a rival to other commercial *NIX systems?
Why does the server need a different OS? Different applications, different configuration (tuning) - yes; but the same "core" operating system should be able to handle both. If WinXP cannot then obviously Linux must be superior because it can.
So why did the opposing lawyer not call his bluff, and get the court to produce an "off-the-shelf" (ie not specially adapted), or selection of, DVD players and DVDs and ask him (in the witness stand) to demonstrate fast forwarding past the warnings?
Which has always seemed backwards to me. If a film is bought for rental then the studio/distributer gets paid once (albeit a higher price) for that copy. If the DVD/Video is offered for sale then the studio/distributer gets a cut of every sale. If a movie is available for rent before it is offered for sale, then I suspect that many of the people renting it will not subsequently purchase the DVD/Video when it comes on sale. If they were offered for sale before rental, then surely more people would buy the DVD/Video - so the studio/distributer makes more money. So that newly released movies would only be available for sale, and older or out-of-print ones could be rented. Which is similar way that the library system works for books.
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It is done to safeguard the investors. What the Enron case brings into question was whether the accountants (regardless of their degrees, licences and membership of the appropriate professional bodies) performing the audit were sufficiently qualified to do so.
So why continue to make singles? Why not just produce albums, DVDs and VHS of concerts? Or change the single format to DVD or VCD and put on the music video as well as the audio.
I have been buying music for about 30 years and I have only ever bought 3 vinyl 7" and 2 CD singles, but 100s of albums (on vinyl, Cassette and CD) If I hear a track I like on the radio, TV or internet, then I will buy the album not a single.
All music & video (and most other) content is copyright. The question is whether or not the copyright owner has given permission for the copy to be made.
This should not require region coding. If company A has exclusive distribution rights for area X and company B for area Y, then this should only affect the supply of to shops in areas X & Y. Once a consumer has purchased an authorised copy then what happens to that copy subsequently should be no concern of either the original producer or the distributer. If a consumer in area X finds that it is cheaper to purchase from area Y (paying postage charges, customs duty, import taxes etc) than buying locally (or if the product distributed by A is superior to from company B) then market forces (we do believe in market forces don't we?) should force B to be more competitive.
As these businesses have a lot of money then they do not need to fail. They can spend some of their money and adapt with the changes.
What you 'do' is campaign for analogue broadcasts to cease and be replaced by digital ones (with "appropriate" copy protection included)
Why do studios want you to see it in the theater before buying the DVD? Some people like the atmosphere of a movie theater, others dislike the crowds and distraction of kids noisily eating popcorn and sweets so would prefer to watch in their own home or in a small group of friends. Do the studios make much more money out of the saleof a theater ticket than they do from a DVD sale?
If it ever comes to consumer equipment only playing "legitmate" media, then it is vital that original material produced by the consumer (eg wedding video or birdsong recording) is marked as 'legitimate'. Also if CPRM is introduced, then it should be available to all content creators not just the large media corporations. Joe Public should have just as much right to 'control' the recordings he makes with his digital camcorder as hollywood studios have to control their movies.
They could not go after 'rayon' as this has been used as the name of a fabric since before personal computers were invented.
Even if it does not contravene copyright, for one distribution to change the name of a program/package is likely to confuse users/customers. Imagine how much confusion it would cause if you created a "xunil" distribution which had the programs "sl, perg, hsab, miv, dc, ccg, ssel, ptf, liamdnes, lrep" etc instead of the more 'normal' names. If everyone else, including the author, calls a package "abcd" then if your distribution renames it "wxyz" then people looking at your distribution are going to (at least initially) think that you do not include "abcd". If everyone changes the name, and if the change of name is promulgated, then there is not a problem, but if just one (or two) distributer changes the name this will lead to confusion.
Is the distributor allowed to change the name of a program? I would have thought that this would be a copyright violation in itself.
How many artists either actually "slave in the studio to reach perfection" or would be allowed to even if they wanted to? I suspect that the answer is very few. The record companies do not want the artists to produce "perfection" they want to produce recordings as cheaply as they can get away with and sell as many copies as possible.
Even Virgin started out as a small store. When I was at school (in the late 1960s / early '70s), one of the small local record stores was "Virgin Records". This was before "Tubular Bells" (catalogue number: Virgin 1) 'made' Richard Branson.
Why should the ISPs need to "support" VPN, Linux or anything else? The phone provider does not offer support for the handset, answering machine, modem etc (unless they have supplied them) so why should an ISP support, or be expected to support, end-user equipment and software. All they should have to support should be IP connectivity. If customers suspect an ISP problem they should just have to submit the traceroutes, tcpdump, ppp traces, etc to the show the errant behaviour.
And Grace Hopper, one of the pioneers of high level languages and compilers.
Especially with the trend towards virtual hosts where the same IP address might serve thousands of different sites, some porn and some not.
It is not only SMS from free websites what get blocked. I cannot send SMS to a friend in France from my UK Vodafone GSM phone, as the two networks do not have an interconnect agreement (or I think that is the reason!). Even so, I still get charged the 12p fee for sending the SMS, even though it is not delivered. It should be possible to send an SMS from any GSM phone to any other anywhere in the world, in the same way as you can call a landline in a different country irrespective of which teleco the person you are calling obtains service.
Maybe at the moment not many people need information on the structure of the hoover dam. However, in two or three hundred years this information may be invaluble to historians. It is a function of libraries not only to provide today's information today but to preserve current information for future generations.
I disagree. Windows makes it easy to install a "default" configuration, but makes it difficult for the user/administrator to fine-tune the configuration or to make it do something even slightly unusual.
If UNIX used to be MicroSoft's man rival, I wonder why they disposed of the *NIX system they used to own rather than developing it to become a rival to other commercial *NIX systems?
Which is nothing new. Did Bill Gates not publish an anti free-software letter even before IBM introduced the PC and only hobyists used microcomputers?
Why does the server need a different OS? Different applications, different configuration (tuning) - yes; but the same "core" operating system should be able to handle both. If WinXP cannot then obviously Linux must be superior because it can.
Why would an End User Licence Agreement apply to the rental shop? They are not end-users, so should not be subject to an EULA.
So why did the opposing lawyer not call his bluff, and get the court to produce an "off-the-shelf" (ie not specially adapted), or selection of, DVD players and DVDs and ask him (in the witness stand) to demonstrate fast forwarding past the warnings?
Which has always seemed backwards to me. If a film is bought for rental then the studio/distributer gets paid once (albeit a higher price) for that copy. If the DVD/Video is offered for sale then the studio/distributer gets a cut of every sale. If a movie is available for rent before it is offered for sale, then I suspect that many of the people renting it will not subsequently purchase the DVD/Video when it comes on sale. If they were offered for sale before rental, then surely more people would buy the DVD/Video - so the studio/distributer makes more money. So that newly released movies would only be available for sale, and older or out-of-print ones could be rented. Which is similar way that the library system works for books.